The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped the newest generation of Americans. Drawing on a variety of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the volume considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young people’s experience of the 9/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizen-subjects.
The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped the newest generation of Americans. Drawing on a variety of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the volume considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young people’s experience of the 9/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizen-subjects.
DAVID KIERAN is assistant professor of history at Washington & Jefferson College, in Washington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The War of My Generation”
Part I Experiences and Attitudes of the 9/11 Generations
Chapter 1 Starship Troopers, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and 21st Century Youth
Chapter 2 Summer, Soldiers, Flags and Memorials: How U.S. Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays
Chapter 3 Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror
Part II Post-9/11 Militarism in Old and New Media
Chapter 4 How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children’s Literature Addresses Deployment
Chapter 5 “What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked”: Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War
Chapter 6 Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the “Next Great Generation”
Chapter 7 Software and Soldier Lifecycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9/11 Era
Part III Coming of Age Stories and the Representation of Millennial Citizenship During the War on Terror
Chapter 8 Coming of Age in 9/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence
Chapter 9 “Army Strong”: Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in All She Can
Part IV Politics and Pedagogy
Chapter 10 In This War But Not Of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War
Chapter 11 “Coffins After Coffins”: Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom
Afterword: Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture During the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay
Part I Experiences and Attitudes of the 9/11 Generations
Chapter 1 Starship Troopers, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and 21st Century Youth
Chapter 2 Summer, Soldiers, Flags and Memorials: How U.S. Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays
Chapter 3 Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror
Part II Post-9/11 Militarism in Old and New Media
Chapter 4 How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children’s Literature Addresses Deployment
Chapter 5 “What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked”: Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War
Chapter 6 Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the “Next Great Generation”
Chapter 7 Software and Soldier Lifecycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9/11 Era
Part III Coming of Age Stories and the Representation of Millennial Citizenship During the War on Terror
Chapter 8 Coming of Age in 9/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence
Chapter 9 “Army Strong”: Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in All She Can
Part IV Politics and Pedagogy
Chapter 10 In This War But Not Of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War
Chapter 11 “Coffins After Coffins”: Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom
Afterword: Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture During the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
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